NEW JERSEY DAILY BRIEFING

Leaflets Allowed in Mall

By TERRY PRISTIN

Published: October 26, 1996

JERSEY CITY—
In 1994, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that malls had to allow political groups to pass out leaflets. But the court also said that owners could establish rules to govern the pamphleteers' activities.

At the Mill Creek Mall in Secaucus, distributors of campaign literature are required to purchase $1 million in liability insurance. Yesterday, Judge Martin Greenberg of the Superior Court ordered the owners of that mall to temporarily waive the insurance rule on Sunday to permit supporters of Ralph Nader to hand out campaign literature.

Lawyers for the campaign organization had argued that the rule was actually an attempt by the owners, the Hartz Mountain Corporation, to circumvent the Supreme Court decision, said David Rocah, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. But the general counsel for Hartz, Irwin A. Horowitz, said that other groups had not viewed the $665 insurance premium as onerous.